evranch
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I've been too busy to build or fly much or especially post in the forum. But in the cold weeks after Christmas there was time to sit down and build a new plane with my daughter! She picked the Spear because it looks cool and I was fine because I was interested in trying a wing build. I personally wanted to build one of the new Master Series planes but felt they might have been too much for a 5 year old to participate.
Amazing the improvement in skills from 4 to 5, she was pretty much a full partner in the build, peeling foam, folding the airfoil and holding folds until the glue dried. We did internal LED lighted wings and she's excited for the night maiden after we flew it today in the day. Too windy tonight though.
She also enjoys flying X-plane with me and I've started teaching her how to fly in sim. She can start up the C172, take off and climb out in a pretty straight line. She has harder times with RC sims but I'm sure soon enough she is going to be flying her own planes.
The Spear would probably make a decent trainer - it is the most mild mannered plane I've ever flown, as long as you have someone large enough present to throw it into the air. It seems kind of draggy but drag makes for gentle flight characteristics. It can basically be flared forever without any sort of dangerous stall behaviour, which makes it dead easy to land. I think I might build some wire skids so that the nose doesn't have to plow so much snow and ice on landing, though.
Amazing the improvement in skills from 4 to 5, she was pretty much a full partner in the build, peeling foam, folding the airfoil and holding folds until the glue dried. We did internal LED lighted wings and she's excited for the night maiden after we flew it today in the day. Too windy tonight though.
She also enjoys flying X-plane with me and I've started teaching her how to fly in sim. She can start up the C172, take off and climb out in a pretty straight line. She has harder times with RC sims but I'm sure soon enough she is going to be flying her own planes.
The Spear would probably make a decent trainer - it is the most mild mannered plane I've ever flown, as long as you have someone large enough present to throw it into the air. It seems kind of draggy but drag makes for gentle flight characteristics. It can basically be flared forever without any sort of dangerous stall behaviour, which makes it dead easy to land. I think I might build some wire skids so that the nose doesn't have to plow so much snow and ice on landing, though.
